KIDS EARTH Report

NEWSNo.038 Winter 2007

KIDS EARTH FUND Fundraising Party Report
KEF’s fundraising party 2007 was held at Joel Robuchon in Ebisu Garden Place on September
28th. There were 90 guests in attendance. KEF received items to raffle and gifts from 17
companies. Many guests purchased raffle tickets and also bid in the silent auction for a painting
titled “Kohan Choyozu” which was painted by Mr. Hiroshi Senju, a famous Japanese artist. We
really appreciate everyone’s generosity.
The party ticket fees, raffle ticket earnings and sales for KEF’s charity goods will be used forrebuilding KIDS EARTH HOME (KEH) in Croatia. To date, KEH in Croatia has been housed in abuilding owned by the socialist government. In order to make the home more stable for future
activities, KEF would like to purchase land and build its own home. KEF plans to continue its
efforts to provide mental health care for children who suffer from the aftereffects of the war.
■ Date：September 28th, 2007 (Fri) 19:00 ～ 21:30 (Door open 18:30)■ Place：Chateau Restaurant・Joel Robuchon■ Number of visitors：90 people■ Proceeds：Total ¥4,829,000(ticket earnings/ raffle ticket earnings/ goods sales/ silent auction donation)■ Sponsors：Goldwin Inc. / MISSMATCHED JAPAN Co.,Ltd / Jaeger-LeCoultre / CELINE Japan / Four
Seasons Hotel Marunouchi Tokyo / Bagir Japan /FENTON/ Tokyo Bay Maihama Hotel / Chateau Restaurant Joel
Robuchon/ Restaurant Express / Guerlain / Ritsuko SHIRAHAMA / Barilla Japan K.K. / Cudbury Japan Limited /Lush Japan Co., LTD / Weleda / SUBWAY JAPAN,INC■ Collaboration：Violin Performance=Machi Okabe/Tomoe Nakajima Viola Performance=Chizuko Ohmori
Cello Performance=Shiori Horiuchi
Chateau Restaurant Joel Robuchon / EXEC.INTERNATIONAL INC.

A luxurious watch from Jaeger- LeCoultre wasincluded in the raffle.

Picture of the party

CELINE Charity Campaign
Famous Korean actress, Song Hye Gyo, designed a limited edition CELINE bag called the Ms.
Song Bag. In commemoration of this worldwide limited release, a charity project where sales
earnings were donated to KEF was held. In addition, a charity campaign for KEF was held atthe CELINE shops for three days from November 30th to December 2nd. The Ginza CELINE
shop displayed children’s pictures along with a KEF donation box. They also donated part ofthe sales profits over these three days.
The project presented a different style of charity – you can quietly participate in a charitable
activity simply by dressing in the right fashionable clothing.

KIDS EARTH FUND Pictures decorate Christmas cake
Designer Ritsuko Shirahama and Chef Ishinabe of Queen Alice have collaborated in the creationof the haute couture KEF Christmas cake! This delicious cake is presented in a gorgeous box
featuring KEF children’s paintings. The project is dedicated to the theme, “Love the Planet”, aneffort to hand the irreplaceable earth over to our children in good condition. Why not spend thisyear’s Christmas with your heart warmed by knowing that you’ve supported KEF’s efforts tohelp needy children?
Limited quantities available from Daimaru department store. Price ¥4,500 (including tax ¥4,725)
http://www.daimaru.cp.jp

The annual report of the 2006 fiscal year

The 2006 ordinary general meeting has held at the KEF office on 31 Oct. We would like to inform you that all of following bills had been approved.
■ The First bill: An activity report and settlement of accounts of 2006 ■ The second bill: An activity plan and budget of 2007
(The income and expenditure settlement of accounts of 2006〈2006.09.01-2007.08.31〉)

1. Income2. Expenditure■ NEW MEMBER

Membership fees
Donations
Others3,263,977
50,103,620
8,163

Total

53,375,760

Home project
Exhibitions
Publicity
Support events
Operation&management

18,425,536
5,186,178
3,319,527
5,639,144
13,550,484

Total

46,120,869

There is KIDS EARTH FUND’S new member since 1O September until 31 NovemberNovember�(Individual Membership）

Ms. Kiyomi Osano

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ハイ・ペン・ジャオ / Hai Peng Jiao
中国 / China
7歳 / Age 7©子供地球基金/ KIDS EARTH FUND

Special KIDS EARTH
Feature FUND’s support toPhilippines

We visited Gapan-city which is located in
the north-east part of the Philippines andabout 60 km from Manila and Bulacan
province. There we held art workshops topromote the mental health of children wholive there and to make a donation to thecommunity.
T h e re a re f e w m a j o r i n d u s t r i e s i n
Gapan-city and Bulacan province, sopeople are really poor. To make things
worse, this region was heavily damaged
from a typhoon three years ago, and many
people were killed. Even among those
who survived, some people lost theirhomes and their jobs and had all theirpossessions washed away. But now thesepeople are trying to make a settlement
and become independent. Of course there
is no school; however, despite this, they
have built three classrooms without a roof,
and children at primary school age arelearning basic studies there. Sadly there
is no fan although it is very hot, and since
there is no roof, classes have to stop when
there is a squall. KIDS EARTH FUND (KEF)
donated some school supplies, toys andclothes, hoping that these things would
help children learn more comfortably.
[Hold hands with children all over theworld in our Tapestry project]
The physiological damage of the people
who lost family members or friends or theirhomes in the fl ood has not completely
healed, even though several years havepassed. We held an art workshop with
about 120 children who were caught in theflood in order to help them improve theirmental health and decrease their fear. For
the children who learn in classes with few
school supplies, this was the first timeto see or use brushes and paints. They
seemed to enjoy expressing their feelings
using them.
One purpose of the Art Workshop thistime was the psychological support of thechildren who were caught in the flood, by
drawing pictures with friends who havesuffered similar trauma. The other purpose
was to give these children the chance tosupport other children in need all aroundthe world. The drawings which the children
in the Philippines drew will be joined withother drawings painted by children in othercountries in the KEF Tapestry Project. Thedrawings of the children in the Philippines
will carry a strong message from theircountry as they contribute to the final big
KEF Tapestry. By the time they see theirown drawing as a part of the tapestry;
we hope that the environment around thechildren will have greatly improved.
During our stay in Philippines this time,

KIDS EARTH
HOME Project

KIDS EARTH
CAR Project
Jikei University Hospital- Right Left Left Right-

Construction of KIDS EARTH HOME
No. 6 in Cambodia CompletedChildren in the new school building

KEH No. 6 is located in Kandal Province,Cambodia. This is a poverty stricken
area, and about 500 children are receiving
primary education in KEH No.6. In themonsoon season, not only the roads,
but also the school campus is fl ooded
with water. However, even in those harsh
circumstances the children eagerly cometo school on foot, often from far offdistances.
Not long ago, the old school building
was crumbling, and the premises could
not support the growing number ofchildren needing education. To create
an environment in keeping with thethirst for learning shown by the children,with aid from Sumitomo Mitsui Banking
Corporation Volunteer Fund, the KEF
school rebuilding project was begun.
The project was completed in October
2007. In addition to the school building,sewing machines for a women’s vocational
training, a volleyball court, a sand pit(for long jump or seesaw), and a new
loudspeaker were purchased and set up.
By the middle of October, with the startof the new school term, the school wasoverflowing with the delighted faces ofhundreds of happy children.

Tapestry Project
we also visited a foster home called
B e t h l e h e m H o u s e , w h e re c h i l d re n
whose parents cannot raise them due toeconomical reasons live. We gave somefinancial assistance to them that will be
used for purchasing clothes, milk anddiapers for about 30 babies there.

ColumnDEAR KIDS,
DEAR THE EARTH vol.19

Exhibition

Advisor：Sumiko Iwao

(Keio University, Musashi Institute of Technology, Emeritus Professor)

The first time I was introduced to KIDS EARTH FUND was when I received an e-mailfrom Harumi Torii, president of KEF. At that time, I had just retired from over 40 years’
work at a university, and I thought that I would like to try something new, so I joined
this volunteer activity.
My job in the workshop was making lunches for children who had been admitted toa hospital. Unfortunately, from when I was a child, I have been very poor at making
things with my hands. For example, when I tried making small items using a sewing
machine, I was always terrified that I would sew my finger. So I had to ask my friend’sto help me.
I enjoyed making the lunches so much without my old memory, which it was like beinga child again. Furthermore, what I impressed me was that I could participate in a teameffort with the young people who represent the KEF staff to save children. I will join
this program as often as possible all the while apologizing in my mind to the children
who get the lunch I made, which contains a strawberry that doesn’t even look likestrawberry….

Suntory Museum
Tenpozan in Osaka

Sixty fi ve paintings drawn by kids fromaround the world colorfully decorated a highconcrete wall in the museum. Numerous
visitors, including many families, were able toreceive the messages from the children. Artworkshops also took place in the museum on
weekends during the exhibition period. During
these workshops, children actively participatedin the “Tapestry Project” with the theme of “JoinHands with Everyone in the World.”
Supported by: Suntory Museum Tenpozan

Christmas Charity
Event in Tamagawa
Takashimaya S・C“White Angel Project”
is taking place.
The 6th Christmas Charity Project with thetheme of “Peaceful Christmas to Kids aroundthe World,” is now being held jointly byTamagama Takashimaya S・C and KEF. For
the project, paintings on Christmas or peacedrawn by children from around the world arebeing exhibited. The exhibition includes joint
paintings completed by children in Tokyoand Sri Lankan children who suffered fromthe earthquake followed by the devastatingtsunami which hit Sumatra Island. During theevent, KEF is also presenting the “TapestryProject,” as part of its 20th anniversarycelebrations in 2008, and they hope that themessages from children around the world will
touch the heart of every visitor.

Children usually hold their paintbrushin their more dexterous hand. In a KIDS
EARTH CAR (KEC) art workshop, thepleasure and difficulty of creating with theother hand was explored. The children
took on the challenge of making line art
with both hands. This time they useddifferent colors in each hand and createdvividly-colored paintings. They thoughtthat it would be difficult to draw with theirless dexterous hand. Instead, what theyfound was that as they concentrated while
drawing with their non-writing hand, theart work they created came out muchbetter than they thought possible. On theother hand, they could not focus as wellwhen drawing with their writing-hand.
Children made new discoveries about
themselves through the fun of learning
how to draw with both hands. All in all it
was an enlightening experience!

KEF celebrates its 20th anniversary in 2008.
The “Tapestry Project”, one of our anniversary celebrations, is now underway.
For the project, children around the world are drawing individualized pictures on
30cm2 canvases. All these pictures will be joined to make a big tapestry which will
be displayed in various exhibitions around the world. Children in China, Croatia,Vietnam, Cambodia, Pakistan, Senegal, the Philippines and Japan have alreadyjoined art workshops for this project. By drawing their beloved families and friends,
their dreams or happy memories and having the pictures combined into one bigtapestry, the kids can send a strong message to the world. When completed, thetapestry will be exhibited in Beijing, where the Olympics will be held next year,
Croatia, where KIDS EARTH HOME No. 1 will soon be reconstructed, and manyother places around the globe.

●Kyoto・Sakyo-ku
Mon 10/8 - Thu 10/18
Le café 338●Kyoto・Sakyo-ku
Sat 10/20-Sun 10/28
Kyoto University of Foreign studies●Tokyo・Shinjuku-ku
Mon 10/1-Wed 10/31
Numata Picture Book Museum●Tokyo・Shinjuku-ku●Kyoto・Sakyo-ku

Wed 11/21-Fri 12/28
Nissan Tamagawa Hospital

Sat 10/27-Sun 10/28
Kyoto Notre Dame University●Tokyo・Shinjuku-ku
Wed 11/14-Tue 12/25
Tamagawa Takashimaya S・C●Osaka・Minato-ku

Fri 10/26-Tue 11/13
Suntory Museum Temposan